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greater, for they must follow the heated flags, and hear the reflected 

 as well as the direct rays of the sun. 



But we cannot expect, even if this objection were overcome, that 

 all the inhabitants of a large town would go so far as the park every 

 day, or so often as it is desirable that they should take an agreeable 

 stroll in the fresh air. On the other hand, we cannot say that the 

 transportation of merchandise should be altogether interdicted in the 

 domestic quarters of a town, as it is in a park, and as it now is 

 through certain streets of London and Paris during most hours of the 

 day. On the contrary, it is evidently desirable that every dwelling 

 house should be accessible by means of suitable paved streets to 

 heavy -wheeled vehicles. 



NEW ARRANGEMENTS DEMANDED BY EXISTING 

 REQUIREMENTS. 



It will be observed that each of the changes which we have ex- 

 amined points clearly towards the conclusion that the present street 

 arrangements of every large town will, at no very distant day, re- 

 quire, not to be set aside, but to be supplemented, by a series of 

 ways designed with express reference to the pleasure with which 

 they may be used for walking, riding, and the driving of carriages ; 

 for rest, recreation, refreshment, and social intercourse, and that these 

 ways must be so arranged that they will be conveniently accessible 

 from every dwelling house, and allow its occupants to pass from it 

 to distant parts of the town, as, for instance, when they want to go 

 to a park, without the necessity of traveling for any considerable 

 distance through streets no more convenient for the purpose than 

 our streets of the better class now are. . 



We may refuse to make "timely provisions for such purposes in 

 our suburbs, and we may by our refusal add prodigiously to the 

 difficulty and the cost of their final introduction ; but it is no more 

 probable, if great towns continue to grow greater, that such require- 

 ments as we have pointed out will not eventually be provided than 

 it was two hundred years ago that the obvious defects of the then 

 existing street arrangements would continue to be permanently en- 

 dured rather than that property should be destroyed which existed 

 in the buildings by their sides. 



THE POSITION OF BROOKLYN. 



If we now take the case of Brooklyn we shall find that all the 

 reasons for an advance upon the standards of the street arrange- 



